A Bayesian analysis of physical habitat changes at tributary confluences in cobble-bed upland streams of the Acheron River basin, Australia

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Wallis, Elizabeth ^a   Mac Nally, Ralph ^a   Lake, P S ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ECOLOGY; FLOW VELOCITY; OCEAN HABITATS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SNOW;

AUSTRALIA; BAYESIAN; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BED FORMS; BED PARTICLES; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGIES; DOWNSTREAM CHANNELS; FLOW CONDITIONS; IN CHANNELS; PHYSICAL HABITATS; RIVER BASINS; RIVER SYSTEMS; VICTORIA , AUSTRALIA;

RIVERS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOTA; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; STREAM BED; TRIBUTARY; WATER FLOW;

ACHERON RIVER; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 58149084852     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR006831     Document Type: Article

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